It seems that from the beginning of the riddle of life, the rules are ingrained in the human mental system. Human beings are taught by their parents to listen, by their teachers to raise their hands, and by their governments to maintain order. Human beings have an innate need for structure and order in their lives, a need that disappears with age. Filling the void of structureless societies and finding the truth about themselves; humans turn to omniscient deities. Throughout Chapter II of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow undertakes a long journey to seek advice from the all-knowing and enlightened ivory trader named Kurtz. Marlow, in the tumultuous environment of the African jungle, questions the human condition. Why not ? Everything, everything can be done in this country” (10). Men have no respect for the African Congo. The men see this place as a primitive society that carries no consequences for any of their wrongdoings. Marlow sees this and wants more than just hollow men whom he describes as “animals of lesser value” (11). It is at this point that Marlow begins to become obsessed with finding the powerful ivory merchant Kurtz – the only man with morals – to be his own voice of reason and show him advice. Marlow wants to know more about Kurtz, more than just that he is "that man" (9) and decides to travel to reveal Kurtz's ambiguous identity. Marlow undertakes a perilous journey through the jungle, a place that reminds him of “a journey to the first beginnings of the world” (11). Marlow and the crew of his steamboat “creep like a lazy beetle crawling on the floor of a high gantry…toward Kurtz” (12). During his travels, Marlow observes and comments on the wild nature of the surrounding landscape. The area is a place where “vegetation has gone wild” (11). Even if the English considered it a conquered area, it was still wild like its inhabitants. As Marlow studies the “wild” inhabitants of the wilderness, he misses his helmsman because unlike the other whites, he worked hard. The helmsman was a sailor, and Marlow begins to realize that sailors have an inexplicable brotherhood. With the helmsman dead, Marlow wonders if Kurtz might also be dead. This thought disturbs Marlow, who realizes that he really wanted to speak with Kurtz. More specifically, he couldn't wait to "hear" what Kurtz had to say. He describes his obsession and desire to hear Kurtz as “Absurd!” ". Marlow, after Kurtz's death, begins to no longer have any meaning in life. He believes that "...a belief was stolen from him or a destiny in life was missed"(23), which shows that Kurtz valued Marlow so much that now, in his absence, he has essentially lost his belief or “faith”. This is a direct parallel to the loss of "faith" that Goodman Brown experiences when he loses the woman named Faith and, after her death, loses his faith in the Christian religion and in humanity. Marlow, upon discovering the book, begins to realize that in the middle of the African jungle lies a part of the civilized world. The discovery of the book was "unreal" (14) and Marlow's inability to tell "such a name" (14), the